﻿20.2 BIRDS. Jvj.Y, 



in quest of game, hung the birds, as he shot them, 

 to the branch of a tree, or deposited them on a 

 rock ; but, on collecting the produce of his chase in 

 the evening, he found that the gulls had left him 

 little besides the bones to carry. If by chance a 

 goose, when shot, fell into the river, a gull speedily 

 took his stand on the carcase, and proceeded to tear 

 out the entrails, and devour the flesh, as he floated 

 with it down the current. Even the raven kept 

 aloof, when a gull had taken possession of a bird. 



The harlequin duck {Clangula histrionica) also 

 frequents Bear Lake Eiver ; but is comparatively 

 rare in other districts, and is not easy of approach. 

 It congregates in small flocks, which, lighting at 

 the head of a rapid, sufi'er themselves to glide down 

 with the stream, fishing in the eddies as they 

 go. A sportsman, by secreting himself among 

 the bushes on the strand, conveniently near to 

 an eddy, may, if he has patience to "svait, be 

 sure of obtaining a shot. In this way I procured 

 specimens. The osprey and white-headed eagle 

 both build their nests on the banks of Bear 

 Lake Biver, and the gold en- winged woodpecker 

 migrates thus far north, and perhaps further, though 

 it did not come under our observation in a higher 

 latitude. 



A small frog {Bufo ameiicanus) is common in every 

 pond, and Mr. Bell informed me that he had seen it 

 on Peel Biver, which is the most northern locality I 



